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    Blathered missen up wi' avon sss...plus mi midge 'ood...goin prepared this time
    He's covering himself in Avon skin so soft (wel known midge repellant). He's wearing a mesh anti midge hood.

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    Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.

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    sss/mij'ood/gloves/gaiters...parked mi arse on a limestone escarpment forran'our ("a long continuous steep face of a ridge formed by erosion"...fo' them as dunt know wot an escarpment is...Public Info interlude)...infested wi' midges... never got bit once.
    It's just a fair thing tav midges crawlin all oer thi 'n know they can't get yer.

    Got the cubs on film but t'owd dog 'n vixen didn't turn up before dark...they cud probably smell mi repellant a mile off.

    I've bin told since that the local gamekeeper shot a dog fox on the fell close to where the cubs are. That probably explains why mister ant bin around.
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    Yesterday : loads of bunnies many young uns, a young group of Goldfinches, a lovely shoal of Dace under the Bridge on Teesdale Way. A Turkscap Lily too , bit of a rarity in the wilds up here. Also spotted quite a few mayflys and demelzas and a black backed Gull greedily hoovering them up.
    Generally going nowhere fast.

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Quote Originally Posted by Alf Tupper View Post
    Yesterday : loads of bunnies many young uns, a young group of Goldfinches, a lovely shoal of Dace under the Bridge on Teesdale Way. A Turkscap Lily too , bit of a rarity in the wilds up here. Also spotted quite a few mayflys and demelzas and a black backed Gull greedily hoovering them up.

    may I correct you AT...a group of Goldfinches is known as a "Charm"...and would not the gull have been a Black Headed of the species?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wharfeego View Post
    may I correct you AT...a group of Goldfinches is known as a "Charm"...and would not the gull have been a Black Headed of the species?
    A 'Charm of Goldfinches'. You been reading BB?
    Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
    A 'Charm of Goldfinches'. You been reading BB?
    BB? Big Brother??

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    Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
    A 'Charm of Goldfinches'. You been reading BB?
    nay lad...I only look at Big Boobs...I dunt read it

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Followed a hare down the road in the car last night for a couple of hundred yards. Those things can really run, I thought it was a small terrier when I first saw it.

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    Been walking up Beamsley Beacon and over Round Hill today. Saw loads of Meadow Pippets and Curlew and heard several Golden Plover. Well remember some birdwatchers up on Bleaklow describe them as "Johnnie One-notes", which sums them up brilliantly.

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    a shedful o' midges tugetha wi' a bunch o' wild mammals beltin doon scree at Kettlewell...midge capital o' Dales!

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